Charlie Angus

You start raising the issue of breaking Canada apart.

This is the Don Bass playbook.

Exactly.

This has been in the works for some time.

The Alberta separatists, these are not credible people.

One of them is an ex-Marine.

I mean, can you say astroturf?

But what they've been doing, they've been meeting in Washington.

You know, Pete Hoekstra, the ambassador to Canada, accused us of foreign interference by showing a commercial of Ronald Reagan.

Well, the Alberta separatists claim that there's a $500 million slush fund on the table for them to help break up Canada.

This is the play that they're going to be using against us.

We have an extremist premier, Daniel Smith, who's been undermining Canada again and again.

I just come back from Alberta in huge rallies in Calgary and Edmonton.

People do not want this.

But what they understand is it doesn't matter what the majority thinks right now.

What matters is the ability of Donald Trump

to create this impression so that he has an excuse, a provocation to act.

That's the Vladimir Putin playbook.

These are really, really dangerous times, Ben.

We have to start calling this out.